Calcutta India-1946: Monkey Eating While Another Monkey Circles Around

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationCalcutta, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Calcutta India

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Monkey Eating While Another Monkey Circles Around — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures two monkeys in Calcutta, India. One monkey sits in dappled sunlight, intently eating a small object, while another circles nearby on a textured concrete floor. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, natural lighting, and a candid, observational style, offering a rare glimpse of urban wildlife from mid-20th century India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124755026

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1725 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: reel 1
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Calcutta, India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Calcutta animal footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing a brief urban wildlife cutaway from original 8mm home movies.
Period detail: The scene may show a mid-1940s outdoor paved or concrete area in Calcutta, with era evidence coming mainly from the dated 8mm source rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes two monkeys at close range as one eats and another moves nearby, preserving a casual visitor-shot moment rather than a staged animal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible details include two monkeys, one eating a small object, another circling or watching, a textured concrete surface, dappled sunlight, deep shadows, and frame-edge exposure falloff.
Film character: The clip has a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, uneven exposure, handheld framing, and dark gate edges that emphasize its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, observational cutaway, transition beat, or period wildlife detail within a sequence about Calcutta, travel, animals, or everyday urban scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers a small visual note on animals encountered in an urban Indian setting, without identifying a zoo, street, temple, or specific public place from the visible frames.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or animal-use context should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches might include 1946 Calcutta monkey footage, 8mm India home movie animals, vintage monkeys eating, and 1940s urban wildlife India cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Calcutta material, then India travel footage or animal behavior scenes from similar 8mm home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1946 Calcutta home-movie footage, one monkey sits in shadow eating as another monkey passes nearby on a bright textured surface. — One monkey eats in partial shade while another moves close beside it on the paved surface.

A monkey in the 1946 Calcutta clip holds a small object near its mouth, with another monkey partially entering the shaded frame. — The eating monkey turns toward the camera as another monkey remains partly visible nearby.

Two monkeys appear in a darker 1946 Calcutta frame, one looking left while the other bends toward the ground or its hands. — Both monkeys fall into deeper shadow as one looks left and the other bends over near the floor.

Two monkeys remain close together as the seated one faces left and the other looks down.

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